FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 November 1907, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

• j BREEDING t. BUYING COWS. j .\4i Australian dairyman has asked ! the .Sydney Hail whether it is better < ■ to breed ur to buy cows, and the reply ' is:—This, of course, depends greatly ' on circumstances, but experience has 1 taught that most successful country ' dairy men—that is, suppliers to dairy 1 factories—breed their own cows. Uni- ' form good quality U the point that ' should be aimed at. This can be better ' attained by breeding than by purchasing animals here and there as required. I There are many reasons w y it is more ! profitable for dairymen owing lairlaniis to breed than to l>uv. in ' |mrchi»in;, even the best judges are sometimes misled by appearances. As a rule, sorters do not part ivith their iiest eows; c n ei|uently there are more culU on the market that high-class animals, j Buyers therefore have a great deal of picking and choosing to do, and deep milkers nearly always bring full values. Be sure to keep a boll that has come ' font a k>n« line of good milk-produeing stock. The purer! bred he i'b the better, as will then be more prepotent, > and likely to hand down good qualities r to his offspring. All heifers from the t be»t eows should be reared to take the t place of animal* that for various ren i sons are disposed of. This system of 9 breeding allows the dairyman to keep f only the l est cows, whilst someone else 0 gets the eulls. If the butcher secures f them, so much the better for dairymen a generally. Unfortunately, farmers have •- not been thoroughly educated to have e the advantage of feeding only animals y that produce payable results. Thus e many very inferior cows are seen in the t bails. Kb keen business m n wsuld buy - goods at a high price and then seil - them at a Joss; yet this is practically - what many dairymen are doing. They i- purchase cows much above their value, 1 and these inferior animals cost more to keep than the amount received for their e milk. The best way to get good eows i is to breed them. Grade up. not down, bv keeping the best fin -, snd imlv lieis fern from the most profitable cows. In e this way each generation will be better . g than the last. Selection and rejection t have a great deal to do with successful 8 breeding. Dairymen who supply towns with milk' and have no run for stock ' cannot work on those lines, but all u country farmers can do so with advantage. - \ - 1